115 

 Baculites occidentalis, Meek. 



Baculites owaftM (Say?) Meek. — Trans Alb. In.st. 1857, Vol. 4, p. 48, 



« oecidentaMs, Meek. — Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc, Phil., 1861, Vol. XIII., p. 316. 

 " « " Bui. Geol. & Geogr. Surv. of Terr., Vol. II., No. 4, p. 366, 



pi. 4, figs. 1, la, b. 



Sucia Island, Meek. Noi'th-west side of Hornby Island, in Division 

 D ; J. Richardson, 1872. 



A somewhat numerous series of Baculites obtained by Mr. Richardson 

 at Hornby and at the Sucia islands, sliows that the characters most 

 relied on to distinguish these two so-called species are not constant. 

 According to Mr. Meek, the outline of a transverse section of B. Chicoen- 

 sis (or inornatas) is ovate, and the shell smooth, while in B. occidentalis 

 the section is snbtrigonal (the antisiphonal side being flattened) and the 

 surface is undulating. Almost every intermediate gradation can be 

 observed between shells with an ovate and those with a subtrigonal 

 section, and further, it is not unusual to find sjDecimens combining a 

 smooth surface with a subtrigonal section, or a coarsely undulated test 

 with an ovate section. 



(Baculites compressus, Say. 



Baculites c»mpressm, Say. — 1821, Am. Journ. of Sc. & Arts, Vol. II., p. 41. 



" « Morton. —1834, Syn. Org. Rem. Cret. Gr. of U. S., p. 43, 



pi. 9, fig. 1. 

 « » Hall and Meek.— 1854, Mem. Am. Ac. Arts & Sc, Boston, Vol. V., 



N. S., p. 400, pi. 5, fig. 2, and pi. 6, figs. 8 and^. 

 " " Meek. —1876, Eep. Inv. Cret. and Tert. Foss. U. Miis. 



Co., p. 400, pi. 20, figs. 3a, b, e. 



Baculites compressus is included by Mr. Etheridge in his list of Comox 

 and Yaldez Inlet fossils, but it has not been recognized in any of Mr. 

 Eichardson's collections, unless it is the same as one or both of the two 

 preceding species or so-called species of Baculite, which is not at all 

 unlikely.) 



GASTEEOPODA. 



SURCULA SUCIENSIS. (N. Sp.) 

 Plate 15, figures 1, la. 



Shell small, naiTOwly fusiform, very long and slender ; spire elongated, 

 tuiTeted, nearly as long as the body Avhorl ; beak attenuated, slightly 

 curved. Whorls nine, those of the spii-e very gently convex, the lowest 



